The Washington Wizards got demolished by the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday in a 153-131 contest at Capital One Arena.<\/p>\n
The Wizards had some scoring fun in a defense-optional first half. Tristan Vukcevic got hot with 10 early points to pace Washington, but Paul George turned back the clock with 14 of his own as the Sixers took a 35-29 after one.<\/p>\n
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The Wiz bench mob came out swinging in the second quarter. Jamir Watkins and Jaden Hardy helped key a 16-7 run to open the period, while Anthony Gill caught fire with 11 points with 3 triples. Washington even held a 58-48 lead before Philly answered back to retake the lead, 73-71, at the break.<\/p>\n
Will Riley started the second half with a poster jam on Adem Bona.<\/p>\n
Riley\u2019s dunk marked the beginning of the end, as the Sixers ran away with this thing the rest of the way. Philadelphia took a 120-103 lead into the fourth quarter, where nothing even remotely resembling a comeback attempt materialized for Washington in the 22-point defeat.<\/p>\n
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Gill, fresh off hitting the 1,000-point career mark, had his best scoring game ever. He finished with a career-high 21 points on 8-of-9 shooting with six rebounds and six assists. Riley tallied 18 of his own on an 8-of-12 clip, while Vukcevic and Justin Champagnie each added 17.<\/p>\n
Tre Johnson struggled in this one, scoring eight points on 3-of-11 shooting. He also got targeted several times on defense as George and Tyrese Maxey dribbled circles around him.<\/p>\n
Johnson and the rest of the crew get a chance to rebound on Saturday in a road game against the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards got demolished by the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday in a 153-131 contest at Capital One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,1262,10685,7,53841,83133,7138,3531,10683,189,6,526,678,207,3817,952,26518,1263,682,468,982],"class_list":{"0":"post-693987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-adem-bona","10":"tag-anthony-gill","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-capital-one","13":"tag-geoff-burke-imagn","14":"tag-jaden-hardy","15":"tag-jamir-watkins","16":"tag-justin-champagnie","17":"tag-miami-heat","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-paul-george","20":"tag-philadelphia","21":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","22":"tag-philadelphia76ers","23":"tag-tre-johnson","24":"tag-tristan-vukcevic","25":"tag-tyrese-maxey","26":"tag-washington","27":"tag-washington-wizards","28":"tag-will-riley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116335521610020221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}